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Elon Musk Escalates Apple/Twitter Dispute – Says Tech Giant Hates Free Speech
It seems pretty clear that following his takeover of Twitter, Elon Musk doesn’t want other companies or people dictating to him exactly how he should run his newly acquired platform. Mandating a fresh start and the advocacy of ‘free speech’, this has already got his tenure off to a pretty…
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Elon Musk Says if Apple or Google Ban Twitter He’ll Just Make His Own Smartphone!
So, with it being around a month now since Elon Musk became the new owner of Twitter, has his tenure so far proven to be a success? Truthfully, it’s hard to say. If nothing else though he’s certainly been making the news which I suppose is never really a bad…
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Nvidia Taiwan Has Their Twitter Account Hacked – Starts Promoting Dogecoin!
While Nvidia certainly fell in for a lot of criticism when it was found that they were directly selling and shipping 30XX graphics cards to cryptocurrency miners (and rightly so!), I think it would be fair to say that this was about the full extent of their involvement with things…
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Twitter Disables Microservices to Reduce Bloat – Ends Up Breaking 2FA!
Following Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter last month, there has certainly been a lot of hyperbole and hysteria surrounding the move. Admittedly, this has mostly come from celebrities crying about the ‘death of social media’ while seemingly choosing to ignore the fact that Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, and the vast majority…
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Elon Musk Fires Back at Twitter Critics – Says the Platform Has Never Been More Popular!
I can honestly say that when it comes to Elon Musk, I don’t have any overly strong opinions about him one way or the other. Following his successful acquisition of social media platform Twitter earlier this month, however, I think it’s fair to say that a lot of people have…
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Elon Musk’s Twitter May Introduce Fees to Businesses & Politicians!
Around a month ago, everything in the world of Twitter was relatively sane with business seemingly operating as normal. Then, of course, along came Elon Musk who decided he’d like to purchase the social media platform. Well… I suppose he was one of the few people on the planet who…
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Twitter Leak Suggest ‘Super Follow’ Update is Coming Soon
I think it would be fair to say that while social media can certainly open a lot of doors for content creators or ‘influencers’, there are currently very few means of actually turning that popularity into any form of tangible income. Yes, it’s possible through sponsorships and endorsements, but let’s…
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Widow Sues Twitter for Allowing ISIS to Use the Platform
Nowadays, pretty much anyone with internet access can create accounts and become active on social media platforms, and this also applies to terrorist organizations. As far as Twitter is concerned, it has recently become the main focus of a lawsuit filed by a woman whose husband was killed during an attack…
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Twitter Wants to Connect Users’ Tweets with Ads
Since it currently represents one of the most important social networks, Twitter is often tweaking things and adding new features in order to keep up with its competitors. Advertising is a very important part of social networking, which is why it makes sense for Twitter to pay extra attention to…
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Twitter’s Polling Feature Will Become Available for All Users
Twitter is great for sharing news and ideas quickly, but it’s not exactly the most appreciated social media platform when it comes to creating polls. Actually, regular Twitter users had to resort to ingenious methods in order to create simple polls, such as asking viewers to retweet in order to answer…
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Twitter is Helping the USGS to Detect Earthquakes
The US Geological Survey is the government body that is responsible for tracking seismic activity in the United States and abroad, and it looks like those who are directly involved in these tracking sessions are using data from Twitter in order to achieve quicker and more precise results. More specifically,…
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A System Is Being Developed to Detect Malware Concealed in Short Twitter URLs
It appears that we’ll soon be able to detect malware hidden in short Twitter URLs courtesy of an intelligent system that’s being developed by a team of scientists with the support of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council. The scientists decided to find a…
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Twitter Shuts down All Remaining Branches of Politwoops And Diplotwoops
Politwoops, the website collection that was responsible for archiving deleted tweets made by politicians from all over the world, has recently received a killing blow from Twitter. The websites were overseen by the Open State Foundation, whose members reported that Twitter has suspended their API access on Friday, August 21.…
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